Everybody says that at least once a day you must redline the car and i fully agree with that.What if you are daily drive is in towh where you get into trafic jams.Can you redline the car when is parked or you have to be in the move 2nd or 3rd gear.obviously you need a litle space in the road to be able to redline the 8.

 

best gear to do it in is 2nd if you want to keep your licence . Doing it in neutral is not a good idea .

 

Where I live theres never a cop around when you need one so I red line down the street then turn off and make my way home.
See if you can find a spot check it out a few times then make your pass.
You get busted its all on you bub

 

redlining is fun! you get there before you know it thats for sure... it doesnt sound any different from 6k or 9k thats for sure... any other car and it would be screaming for you to stop!

 

onramps are your friend. come to a full stop if its safe, then rip it all the way to 80 to merge in with traffic....94mph is 9500 in third so thats three ful gears u can run thru for good reason.....or autox or track day it, great ways to blo out the carbon....i do those too!

 

Or F.O.R.D. lol I love saying that!

 

I hope you're not driving the 8 every day only in the city....that kind of ruins the fun of this car. If you can't take it up to redline every now and again, what's the point?

Also, I hope it's not a manual. Getting caught in traffic every day with an MT is absolute hell.

 

Yep you can sya that again. MT in traffic is Hell.

 

Ya, try NYC (esp. Holland / Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour).. I drive my car to work every now and then to Manhattan... but then again the tourists and locals love seeing this car, so its worth it! I notice my exhausts get filled with soot from too much idling though. Even with all this traffic though, there's plenty of chances to redline, even if for a 5 car-length dash

 

I feel ya buddy, NYC is a great place to enjoy driving MT ! wooooo !

 

^lol I think if you love to drive MT or AT dont matter.

 

+1!

 

Found. On. Road. Dead?

Fix. Or. Repair. Daily?

 

nah...its just a metter of getting used to. Im usually sititng in bumper to bumper traffic in the morning going to work and i dont find manual trans. a problem at all. Just give enough distance between yourself and the car in front and you shouldnt have to shift that much.

As for redlining, i do it whenever i can. I know the roads around my area pretty well and theres barely any troopers there anytime of the day. Once in the morning and once in the after noon at the least.

 

whats wrong with a quick redline in neutral?

 

Nothing. Some people don't know what they're talking about. If it's the difference between not redlining and redlining in neutral, redline in neutral.

 

i see no problem redlining it in 2nd or 3rd on an offramp. but just the same, why would that be preferable to neutral?

 

load? WOT?

 

redline in 2nd gear on onramps.

 

i love onramps.

 

"fucked over rebuilt dodge"?

 

In situation where I can't redline, I just shift at 5k rpm. I remember watching the video where it show the internal of the engine when it's spinning the carbon sweeper (don't know what the tech term for it) on the apex of the rotor comes out at about 3700 rmp, I think. ???

 

If your in neutral there is no load on the motor so it spins up easier and I dont think it burns off the carbon as well as under and accelerated load on the motor. I may be wrong but I know its a hell of a lot more fun than doing it in neutral.

 

What's the advantage of redlining the 8 once in a while? Could someone elaborate or point me to the thread that explains this?

Thanks!

 

it burns up the carbon that gets stuck in the engine. rotary engines are not that efficient in burning gas, hence the bad gas mileage, and a lot of extra gas stays in the engine. this buildup, called carbon buildup, eventually gets large enough to snag the apex seal, or do other horribly bad things to your engine. redlining it once a day puts enough pressure on the motor to clear out most unburned carbon in the engine.